-- Blume Global Appoints Supply Chain Experts and Thought Leaders to Help 
Accelerate Innovation Strategy and Support the Continued Success of the Company

Blume Global ( 
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), a high-growth company with a history of delivering innovation in the global 
supply chain ecosystem, today launched the Blume Executive Advisory Board (EAB) 
and announced its charter members.

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The EAB brings together an advisory team of respected supply chain executives, 
industry experts and technology and academic leaders to help shape and define 
Blume Global's strategy, R&D priorities and product roadmap to enable and 
empower a collaborative supply chain ecosystem that drives value for all 
participants - from the smallest local trucking companies, to logistics service 
providers, to carriers, to the largest retail, hi-tech, manufacturing, consumer 
products, pharmaceutical and automotive companies in the world.

Charter members of Blume's EAB announced today include:

Mark Bakker ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2377650-1&h=2578021657&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmarkbakker221067%2F&a=Mark+Bakker 
), HP --  Bakker is HP's head of supply chain operations for the Americas. He 
is responsible for Supply Chain and Logistics execution end-to-end for HP's 
business in the region. He has held leadership roles across supply chain and 
operations positions during nearly 25 years with HP, with a strong track record 
in both process and digital transformation.

Ibrahim Gokcen ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2377650-1&h=1121889054&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fibrahimgokcen%2F&a=Ibrahim+Gokcen 
), Schneider Electric -- Gokcen is chief technology officer for Schneider 
Electric, and also serves as a non-executive director for Maersk Tankers. He 
brings two decades of experience leading digital transformation and 
industrializing Artificial Intelligence for global companies such as A.P. 
Moller - Maersk and General Electric.

Gilles Leyrat ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2377650-1&h=631413403&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fgilles-leyrat-0103452%2F&a=Gilles+Leyrat 
), Cisco Systems -- Leyrat has managed operations for Fortune 50 companies HP 
and Cisco, and currently serves as Cisco's senior vice president of global 
business services. He has spent his career optimizing operational performance, 
scaling up operations and leading mergers and acquisitions execution on an 
international scope.

Jim Miller ( 
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), AREVO -- As a strategic advisor and former CEO of digital manufacturing 
company AREVO, Miller has spent his career scaling operations for companies 
such as Google, Cisco and Amazon. Previously, he was Google's vice president of 
worldwide operations, where he was responsible for planning, procuring, 
building and deploying its global cloud infrastructure. 

Tracy Rosser ( 
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), Walmart -- An advisor and board member, Rosser spent 22 years at Walmart in 
various executive roles in both supply chain and store operations. In his most 
recent role, Rosser served as Senior Vice President of Transportation & Supply 
Chain for Walmart.

"We are delighted to welcome this distinguished and accomplished group of 
executives to the Blume Executive Advisory Board. Their guidance and insights 
will help shape our innovation strategy, bring outside-in expertise to our 
product strategy and help shape the continued success of our company going 
forward," said Pervinder Johar, CEO, Blume Global. "As we empower and enhance 
global collaborative supply chain networks, from shippers to logistics services 
providers to carriers, and all participants in the ecosystem, our advisors will 
help us accelerate our efforts to build further scale and deliver on our 
strategic vision."

About Blume Global
From the world's largest global retailers, manufacturers and consumer products 
companies to the smallest local drayage trucking companies, success depends on 
end-to-end visibility and orchestration of global supply chain networks across 
every move, mode and mile. With its AI-enabled, data-driven digital platform 
and solutions for real-time visibility, logistics execution, asset management, 
optimization and financial settlement, Blume solutions leverage more than 20 
years of data insights and its global network to help enterprises be more agile 
and responsive, improve service delivery and reduce costs. Learn more at 
www.blumeglobal.com.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Katie Bromley
Communications Director
Blume Global
+1-925-270-0520
kbromley@blumeglobal.com

Laura Often
Account Manager
InkHouse
+1-781-296-6485
blume@inkhouse.com

SOURCE: Blume Global